6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



pinnules lanceolate-acuminate, cut down to the costa or narrow 

 wing, segments -J inch broad ; veins pinnate, veinlets 6-8 pair 

 erecto-patent, forked or simple ; sori placed on the edge of the 

 tertiary segments, principally near the base ; indusium with the 

 outer valve large, glabrous, semi-orbicular. Baker, Jonr. Lin. 

 Soc. xxii./. 223. 



Perak, 2,000-2,500 feet alt. (Scortechini. King, No. 2,159.) 



(Also in North Borneo.) 



2. Dicksonia Kingi. (n. sfi.) Stipes stout, erect, about 

 18 inches long ; fronds 3-4 feet long, deltoid, lanceolate, quadri- 

 pinnatifid ; pinnae 8-10 inches long, the lower ones deltoid 

 lanceolate, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate upwards; secondary 

 pinnae, the lower ones 2\ inches long, the others about 1 inch, 

 cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into oblong broadly- 

 toothed lobes ; texture coricaceous, perfectly glabrous ; sori 

 terminal on the thickened veins and exserted beyond the margin. 



Perak, dense jungle, 3,000-4,000 feet on Gunong Batu, and 

 at Larut {King's collectors, No. 8058, 2 118), very similar in habit 

 to Microlepia moluccana, but the indusium distinctly that of 

 Dicksonia. 



Cibotium barometz. Perak, 1,500 feet alt. {Day, Scor- 

 techini.) 



GENUS Xa.— LECANOPTERIS. (Blume) 



(From lecanee, a bowl, and ptcris) 



Differs from Dicksonia in having the indusium formed from 

 a single valve, and in its curious rhizome, which forms a thick, 

 spreading crust, clothed with small peltate scales. Venation of 

 Pleopeltis, copiously anastomosing, and forming areoles, in which 

 are included free veinlets. 



Lecanopteris carnosa. (Blume.) Rhizome very thick, 

 fleshy ; stipes 1-6 inches long, glabrous ; fronds coriaceous, 



